{"id":363548,"date":"2026-10-03T08:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363548\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:18:40","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-man-accused-of-stabbing-a-stranger-to-death-aboard-a-j-train-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363548\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Man Accused Of Stabbing A Stranger To Death Aboard A J Train In Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Bronx man is accused of stabbing a stranger to death aboard a J train in Queens, according to police and sources.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tyrell Thomas, 25, was taken into custody around five hours after he allegedly killed 59-year-old Mesias Lojano, of Queens.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/man-stabbed-to-death-on-the-j-train-in-queens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The attack <\/a>unfolded around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, when police say an argument erupted aboard a northbound J train at the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to detectives, Thomas then allegedly took out a knife and stabbed Lojano multiple times.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics rushed Lojano to Jamaica Hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says Thomas is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In comparison to 2025, citywide transit crime is up around 33% so far this year, according to NYPD data.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the NYPD to confirm the number of homicides in transit so far this year and is waiting to hear back as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx man is accused of stabbing a stranger to death aboard a J train in Queens, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-363548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}